My husband helped me dig out one of the compost cages this morning - a physical job that I hate to admit is getting too physically hard for me these days, so most of that has now been dumped on the vegetable patch and borders ready for spreading later. A by product was harvesting about five pounds of excellent potatoes from its innermost reaches.
Have also weeded all the couch grass from my strawberry bed and pulled off all the dead leaves. Many of the plants are about 4 years old now and probably past their best but the bed has received a nice dressing of fresh compost which will hopefully get whither,s year’s crop out of them.
I confess I looked at my vegetable growing areas this morning and wondered where I’m going to summon up the energy to get them all dug and weeded ready for spring but hopefully a few sunny days later on in winter will give me the boost I need to get out there and get cracking! I do find these days a break over winter can be a mixed blessing as every year it seems a little harder to get going again!
I don’t mind the digging so much; it’ s the having to bend down and kneel to do the weeding part which reminds one the body isn’t getting any younger. Perhaps I need to eat more blood, fish and bone sandwiches !
